> I was surprised that Linus from Linus Tech Tips was the one uninstalling his own desktop environment. I didn’t find it that surprising, mainly because nobody

> I was surprised that Linus from Linus Tech Tips was the one uninstalling his own desktop environment. I didn’t find it that surprising, mainly because nobody getting into desktop Linux without prior knowledge is going to expect any connection whatsoever between a random third party app and the OS’ desktop environment. It’s like if clamping a smartphone mount to your car’s dash caused the car’s rear left wheel to fly off, it’s completely unintuitive and unexpected. And realistically, the two shouldn’t have any influence on each other. As much as he should’ve read the package manager’s warning, it shouldn’t have been a possibility in the first place. > On the latest WAN show, Linus flies off on a six-minute tangent where he tries to argue that CLI tools shouldn't exist, only to have the chat dogpile him and remind him that piping between CLI programs is an essential component of Linux. Luke caught onto this pretty quickly, and played devil's advocate, while Linus continued spinning his wheels with the 'muh accessability' bit. This feels like a mischaracterization. His argument wasn’t a that CLI tools shouldn’t exist, but instead that for 99.9% of common use cases pulling them out shouldn’t be required.